![]() ![]() If you have a lot of short (under and up to 3 hours) books, they may decide you are not serious about the work or are not capable of completing a longer title. Producers and casting directors look at the number, length, and genres of your titles. Your work defines you as a narrator, and ACX projects will show up on Audible for 7 years. ![]() It’s our job as narrators to assess the quality of the books and be selective in our auditions.Ĭhoose books that are in popular genres in the type of portfolio you want to build. It’s not ACX’s policy to police the books that people make available in the marketplace unless the books infringe copyright. If you need more experience, volunteer for an organization like Learning Ally or your state’s reading service that records material for visually impaired or dyslexic people.īefore you even look at books available for audition, be aware that ACX is an open marketplace. If their first experience is bad, they may never come back to the medium. About half of the general population has never listened to an audiobook. In short, it’s everything you could ask for in a book.First, realize that you should have experience BEFORE you represent yourself as a professional narrator who can complete the job. It’s also a story of aging punk rock stars, wildly imagined aliens, and the beauty and stupidity of life as we know it. It’s a touching, deeply universal story of connection, perseverance, and what it means to be human. ![]() Thus begins Decibel’s journey as he navigates the narrowing rules of the contest, but also his efforts to tackle his own self-doubt and the many (many) scars from his past. How high stakes? Oh, just determining whether the human race will be welcomed into the universe or wiped from existence. What happens when you cross the sci-fi wackiness of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with the glam rock lifestyle of Eurovision? You get the delightful, bouncing disco ball of a novel, Space Opera! Revolving around has-been rockstar Decibel Jones, Space Opera opens with the collective lifeforms of the galaxy making first contact with Earth - specifically, with Decibel, who they have selected to represent humanity in a high-stakes, intergalactic musical contest. ⭐ For more books that discuss race, check out our guide to African American Literature. Narrated in Nicole Lewis' confident (and confidential) tone, Such a Fun Age is one of those best audiobooks that feels like listening to a friend confess the latest details of their own life. Thus begins a plot that could only happen in the present day, as Emira struggles to navigate racial issues and potential social media scandals, all while trying to hold together a job, a social life, and some semblance of sanity. One night, in an effort to keep Alix’s daughter out of the house during a family emergency, Emira takes young Briar to the grocery store, where they’re confronted by a security guard wanting to know what this Black woman is doing with a white child. Alix - white, married, successful in a private blogging enterprise - hires Emira to be a regular babysitter of her two kids. This thoroughly modern novel revolves around Emira, a 25-year-old Black woman desperately trying to make ends meet, and Alix, her peer by age but not by social status. ![]()
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